ABI Podcast

Examining the Mortgage Foreclosure Documentation Mess The latest ABI podcast features a conversation between ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Laura Bartell and bankruptcy attorney and Clean Slate blog author Andy Winchell discussing the recent mortgage foreclosure documentation crisis. In addition to involvement in consumer cases with poor mortgage documentation, Winchell examines issues related to the...

Prof. David Skeel Discusses the Dodd-Frank Act The latest edition of ABI's Podcast series features ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Laura Bartell and Prof. David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania's Law School discussing topics raised in his new book, The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences.

Bankruptcy in the Supreme Court ABI Resident Scholar Laura Bartell interviews Prof. Richard Lieb, director of the Supreme Court Amicus Brief Seminar at St. John's University School of Law, where LL.M. students prepare and file briefs on behalf of bankruptcy law professors in seminal bankruptcy appeals. The class recently filed an amicus brief in the matter of Stern v. Marshall, pending for oral ar...

Turnaround Underground ABI Deputy Executive Director Amy Quackenboss sits down with Adrienne Blankley, founding member and board member of Turnaround Underground, which now includes ABI as a sponsor. Blankley, an associate with KattenMuchinRoseman LLP in New York, discusses Turnaround Underground, which was founded in January 2010 to provide networking opportunities for midlevel restructuring prof...

Foreclosure Defense Specialist The latest ABI Podcast features ABI Resident Scholar Jean Braucher speaking with Matthew Weidner of the Law Offices of Matthew Weidner, P.A. (St. Petersburg, Fla.). Credited by the Wall Street Journal for coining the the phrase 'robo-signers,' Weidner's practice focuses on foreclosure defense for homeowners in Florida, consumer and commercial finance transactions and...

Scholars Perspective of the Subprime Meltdown The latest ABI Podcast features ABI Resident Scholar Jean Braucher speaking with Prof. Kathleen C. Engel of Suffolk University Law School. Discussing The Subprime Virus: Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps, a recently released book that she co-authored with Prof. Patricia A. McCoy of the University of Connecticut, Prof. Engel examines t...

Allowing States To File For Bankruptcy ABI Resident Scholar Jean Braucher talks with Grant Thornton LLP's Martha Kopacz and Robert Childree, authors of the research paper 'Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Bail (Out).' They discuss the pros and cons of enacting a Bankruptcy Code change to allow for states to file for bankruptcy. Click here to read the Grant Thornton research paper,'Too Big to Fail or...

Examining Small Businesses Recovering From Bankruptcy The latest edition of ABI's podcast series features ABI Resident Scholar Jean Braucher speaking with Aparna Mathur, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss Mathur's report entitled Beyond Bankruptcy: Does the Bankruptcy Code Provide a Fresh Start to Entrepreneurs? Mathur's report was developed within the Small Business...

Examining Orchestra Bankruptcy Filings ABI's latest podcast features ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talking with Jeffrey K. Garfinkle, a shareholder and head of Buchalter Nemer's Insolvency and Bank and Finance Practice Groups, about the recent trend of symphony orchestra bankruptcy filings. Garfinkle was the lead attorney in the bankruptcy and successful restructuring of the San Diego Symphon...

Saving Homes With Loss Mitigation Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia Morris (SDNY) talks about her court's program to help homeowners reach a loan modification through bankruptcy.

Examining Bankruptcy Tax Case Now Before The Supreme Court The latest ABI Podcast features ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano speaking with Joseph Peiffer of Day Rettig Peiffer, P.C. discussing a bankruptcy tax case that was recently granted certiorari by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in the case of Hall v. U.S. will look at whether a debtor must pay taxes on the sale of a farm in chapter 1...

Examining Ramifications Of Supreme Courts Decision In Stern v. Marshall The 100th edition of the ABI Podcast takes a special look at the potential aftereffects of the Supreme Court's ruling in Stern v. Marshall. ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano speaks with Prof. Kenneth Klee of the UCLA School of Law, who served on the amicus brief for Marshall and prepared an analysis for Lexis of the case, and...

Examining Consumer Bankruptcy Developments Since BAPCPA The latest ABI Podcast features a discussion between ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano and Alane A. Becket and William A. McNeal of Becket and Lee (Malvern, Pa.), authors of the recently released Consumer Bankruptcy: Fundamentals of Chapter 7 and 13, Third Edition. Becket and McNeal discuss some recent points raised in the book, inlcuding di...

AEIs Alex Pollock Discusses Recent Housing Finance Proposals The latest ABI podcast features ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talking with American Enterprise Institute Fellow Alex J. Pollock about recent housing finance reform proposals aimed at correcting the housing market. Pollock, a former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago who now focuses on hous...

Special ABI International Podcast Featuring Judge on Dubai World Tribunal ABI Resident Scholar Jason Kilborn talks to the honorable Sir John Chadwick, a sitting Judge of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts and one of the judges of a special Tribunal set up to deal with the aftermath of the financial distress of Dubai World.

Examining Control Fraud Theory and the Mortgage Meltdown The latest ABI Podcast features ABI Resident Scholar Jason Kilborn talking with Prof. William Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, about Prof. Black's theory of 'control fraud' and its implications for understanding the causes of and potential remedies for the mortgage meltdown.

Discussion of Pending Supreme Court Case Examining Discharge of Priority Government Claims in Chapter 12 The latest ABI Podcast features ABI Resident Scholar Jason Kilborn talking with Georgia State Law Prof. Jack Williams about Hall v. U.S., currently pending before the Supreme Court. Prof. Williams submitted an amicus brief supporting the debtors' argument that capital gains taxes from the post-...

Trade Creditors Rights ABI Deputy Executive Director Amy Quackenboss speaks with Bruce Nathan and Scott Cargill of Lowenstein Sandler (New York), the authors of ABI's Trade Creditor Remedies Manual. Nathan and Cargill discuss the publication and a few best practices for trade creditors to follow when a customer files for bankruptcy.

Future of U.S. Automobile Manufacturing Industries ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano talks with Paul Ingrassia, the Deputy Editor in Chief at Thomson Reuters. Ingrassia, the keynote speaker at ABI's 2011 Canadian-American Insolvency Symposium and author of Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond, discusses the past, present and future of the auto...

CARE Program and Dangers of Youth Credit Abuse The latest ABI podcast features ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano speaking with retiring Bankruptcy Judge John C. Ninfo II (W.D.N.Y.; Rochester), the founder of the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) Program. The program, which ABI started administering at the end of 2011, was founded by Judge Ninfo in 2002 to motivate young people to understan...

Expert Discussing Book On How Debt Bankrupts The Middle Class The latest ABI podcast features ABI Resident Scholar David Epstein talking with Prof. Katie Porter of the University of California-Irvine School of Law, one of the leading authorities of consumer bankruptcy. Porter discusses her book, Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class, and provides insight on how to analyze trends in consumer b...

Constitutional Expert Discussing Issues Stemming From Stern V. Marshall Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, the current and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, joins ABI Resident Scholar David Epstein to discuss some of the constitutional issues of the Supreme Court's ruling last year in Stern v. Marshall. Chemerinsky, one of the leading scholars on constitutional law, talks...

U.S. Trustee Officials Highlight Areas of the New Mortgage Servicing Settlement Important to Debtors and Bankruptcy Professionals The latest ABI podcast features ABI Resident Scholar David Epstein talking with Clifford J. White, director of the U.S. Trustee Program, and Ramona D. Elliott, deputy director and general counsel of the U.S. Trustee program, about the $25 billion mortgage servicing sett...

Single Asset Real Estate Book Author The latest ABI podcast features ABI Resident Scholar David Epstein talking with David Kuney of Sidley Austin LLP (Washington, D.C.), the author of the recently released the Single Asset Real Estate Case: Basic Principles and Strategies. In addition to discussing the new book, Kuney talks about some of the history of single-asset real estate cases and recent cas...

Federal Reserve Economist Discussing The Effect Of Tarp On Bank Risk-Taking ABI Resident Scholar David Epstein talks with Dr. Lamont Black, an economist Federal Reserve Board, who recently published a paper titled 'The Effect of TARP on Bank Risk-Taking.' Drawing on his research, Black discusses how TARP was originally intended to stabilize the financial sector through the increased capitalization...